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MOCCA Workshop on Law, Society, and Corruption in Central Asia

The "Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia" (MOCCA) project, funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe program, held a two-day online workshop on October 21-22, 2024. The event focused on advancing research on law, society, and corruption in Central Asia. During the workshop, project members talked about the possibilities of doing an edited volume as part of the MOCCA project. Editor

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/mocca-workshop-law-society-and-corruption-central-asia - 2026-06-05

Patrik Olsson’s Participation in the Conference on Civil Society and Non-Profit Development

On October 24, 2024, an international conference on the topic "Development of Free Civil Society and Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations" was held in Tashkent as part of the International Cooperation Initiatives Week. Patrik Olssons, a researcher from Lund University participated in this conference during his secondment within the MOCCA project. The conference, organized by the Center for th

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/patrik-olssons-participation-conference-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2026-06-05

Associate Professor Rustamjon Urinboyev Hosts Master Class at the National University of Uzbekistan

Tashkent’s National University of Uzbekistan recently hosted a captivating master class led by Associate Professor Rustamjon Urinboyev. The session, titled “Publishing Articles in International Journals Included in the Scopus Database: Written and Unwritten Laws,” drew a diverse audience of academics, students, and researchers.Professor Urinboyev shared his expertise on successfully navigating the

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/associate-professor-rustamjon-urinboyev-hosts-master-class-national-university-uzbekistan - 2026-06-05

MOCCA Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches and Methods to Understanding and Combatting Corruption: Theory, Practice and Policy-Making

MOCCA: The Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia project delivered one-week methods workshop on “Interdisciplinary Approaches and Methods to Understanding and Combatting Corruption: Theory, Practice and Policy-Making”. The workshop, held at Lund University, Sweden, from 18 November to 22 November 2024, brought together researchers, policymakers, and academics to advance the fight against

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/mocca-workshop-interdisciplinary-approaches-and-methods-understanding-and-combatting-corruption - 2026-06-05

MSCA Ambassador Event for High-School Students from Uzbekistan

As a part of the project’s outreach activities, the MOCCA project hosted a two-day MSCA Ambassador event at Lund University from December 6 to 7, 2024, welcoming 19 high-school students and four teachers from the Academic Lyceum under the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and the "Ambassador" private school in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.Students and teachers arrived in Lund on December 6 and wer

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/msca-ambassador-event-high-school-students-uzbekistan-0 - 2026-06-05

Workshop on the Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Plans: International Standards and Practice 2024, by the Secretariat of the Anti-Corruption Business Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic

December 20, 2024. The workshop "Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Plans: International Standards and Practice 2024" was organized by the Secretariat of the Anti-Corruption Business Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic. The workshop was delivered as part of the information dissemination and sharing the research findings conducted at Lund University in Sweden.The foll

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/workshop-assessment-effectiveness-anti-corruption-plans-international-standards-and-practice-2024 - 2026-06-05

Uzbekistan takes steps towards establishing a welfare state and eradicating poverty: from ‘Iron Feast’ to ‘Iron Notebooks’

Tolibjon Mustafoev, PhD candidate at Lund University For the last few decades, Uzbekistan has been a popular research destination for many scholars studying authoritarian regimes. Indeed, the first president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, had been in power from the first days of independence in 1991 until September 2016. Karimov was known for his policies on closed economy, high bureaucracy, centra

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/uzbekistan-takes-steps-towards-establishing-welfare-state-and-eradicating-poverty-iron-feast-iron - 2026-06-05

Scientific Seminar for Students of Bishkek State University

On January 24, Zamir Aiylchyev (from the Anti-Corruption Business Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic) led a seminar for 150 students at the Grand Conference Hall of Bishkek State University. The seminar focused on the topic, "Comparative Analysis of Anti-Corruption Practices in the Baltic States and Kyrgyzstan." During the event, Aiylchyev shared insights from his secondment at the

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/scientific-seminar-students-bishkek-state-university - 2026-06-05

MOCCA Consortium Members Strengthen Academic Cooperation During Visit to Uzbekistan

As part of the EU-funded MOCCA (Multi-level Orders of Corruption in Central Asia) project, a delegation from Zhetysu University named after Zhansugurov (Kazakhstan), led by Rector E.A. Buribayev, visited the Law Enforcement Academy during their visit to Uzbekistan.The meeting between MOCCA consortium members—Zhetysu University and the Law Enforcement Academy—focused on advancing collaboration in r

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/mocca-consortium-members-strengthen-academic-cooperation-during-visit-uzbekistan - 2026-06-05

MOCCA Project Dissemination Event at Uzbekistan National University

PRESS RELEASE As part of the MOCCA (Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia) project’s ongoing knowledge dissemination efforts, a specialised workshop was organised at Uzbekistan National University on 17 March 2025. The event was led by Dilaver Khamzaev, a researcher at the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden.The workshop focused on “Analysing Factors Influencing Cor

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/mocca-project-dissemination-event-uzbekistan-national-university - 2026-06-05

MOCCA Mid-Term Conference Explores Corruption and Governance in Central Asia

Lund, Sweden – May 8, 2025 The MOCCA (Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia) project, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe MSCA-SE programme (Grant No. 101085855), successfully held its Mid-Term Conference from May 6–8, 2025, at Lund University, Sweden. The event brought together over 60 scholars and practitioners from Europe and Central Asia to discuss cutting-edge

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/mocca-mid-term-conference-explores-corruption-and-governance-central-asia - 2026-06-05

Strengthening Evidence-Based Management: MOCCA Team Contributes to Institutional Reform at the Institute for Advanced International Studies (IAIS)

Dr. Rustam Urinboev, Principal Investigator of the MOCCA Project (Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia) and Associate Professor at Lund University, together with Prof. Timur Dadabaev (University of Tsukuba), recently presented the Final Report on the Development and Implementation of a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System at the Institute for Advanced International Studies (IAIS), Uni

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/strengthening-evidence-based-management-mocca-team-contributes-institutional-reform-institute - 2026-06-05

Tens of thousands sign up for AI-related MOOC

Lund University’s fastest growing online course can have up to a thousand new participants every week. ‘AI, business and the future of work’ is a success story – but behind it lies many hours of hard work. “In total, we have probably spent 8,000 hours preparing and producing the course,” says Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, currently senior lecturer in European Studies and deputy dean of the Joint Facu

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/tens-thousands-sign-ai-related-mooc - 2026-06-05

AI is better than humans at analysing long-term ECG recordings

In patients with symptoms such as irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting, or in individuals that physicians suspect may have atrial fibrillation, many days of ECGs may be required for diagnosis – “long-term ECG recordings”. These recordings must then undergo a time-consuming and human resource-intensive review to identify heart rhythm abnormalities. In a large international study, researcher

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-better-humans-analysing-long-term-ecg-recordings - 2026-06-05

AI-supported breast cancer screening – new results suggest even higher accuracy

New research results now published from Lund University’s MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last year: AI-supported breast screening detected 29 per cent more cases of cancer compared with traditional screening. More invasive cancers were also clearly detected at an early stage using AI. Now the final part of the research study will focus on breast cancer missed by screeni

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-supported-breast-cancer-screening-new-results-suggest-even-higher-accuracy - 2026-06-05

The Conversation: How AI ‘sees’ the world – what happened when we trained a deep learning model to identify poverty

To most effectively deliver aid to alleviate poverty, you have to know where the people most in need are. In many countries, this is often done with household surveys. But these are usually infrequent and cover limited locations.Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created a step change in how to measure poverty and other human development indicators. Our team has used a type of AI

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/conversation-how-ai-sees-world-what-happened-when-we-trained-deep-learning-model-identify-poverty - 2026-06-05

Johan Axhamn represented Lund at the Swedish Riksdag’s seminar on AI

Every year, the Swedish Riksdag organises a research day. This year the theme was “artificial intelligence”. The aim is to give Members of Parliament the opportunity to gain new knowledge and to highlight the value of science for politics, democracy, and parliamentary decision-making. This year, Johan Axhamn, senior lecturer in Business Law here at LUSEM, was the sole representative from Lund Univ

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/johan-axhamn-represented-lund-swedish-riksdags-seminar-ai - 2026-06-05